NBN comes early to some in Dubbo

Some households in Dubbo are being connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN) more than two years before it is due to be operating in the city.

NBN Co says it is installing some of the infrastructure in areas where new homes are being built including the Southlakes Estate.

The community account manager for the northern region Darren Rudd says newly developed areas are being connected through temporary facilites.

He says that infrastructure will be permanently connected to the N-B-N when the rest of the city comes online in mid 2015.

"The reason for that is we don't want to incur any waste and go back and replace infrastrucutre when we come through to update all the current buildings, homes and schools with NBN connections," he said.

"At that point we'll just change the fibre connecting those new properties back to the exchange."

Menatime, work on a satellite ground station to connect homes in remote areas to the NBN will start soon.

Mr Rudd says a development application for the facility has been lodged with the Bourke Shire Council and the construction tender process is underway.

The northern region community account manager Darren Rudd says some people are already able to use the network.

"We have currently an interim satellite solution up and people can access that now.

"The purpose for these base stations around the country is to support our own two satellites which will be going up to give a range of new capacities to people in rural and remote Australia."